Créée spécialement pour l’exposition, la collection en série limitée Escapade de Chaumet est la promesse d’un moment imprévu et volé, qui évoque la fluidité d’un ruban plat négligemment enroulé - ou déroulé. Objets sculpturaux, la bague large et le bracelet manchette en or jaune rappellent les créations des années 40. Toutes les tranches sont biseautées et serties de diamants brillants visibles de tous côtés, dans la grande tradition joaillière.

La montre féminine Liens s’enrichit de nouveautés précieuses. Dans ses versions joaillières, le petit modèle en or blanc et diamants est entièrement pavé à la main : le cadran en serti neige, la couronne ornée d’un diamant taillé en rose, et le bracelet en satin noir avec boucle pavée. Le moyen modèle associe or rose et nacre blanche, sur un bracelet en alligator noir, avec une
lunette sertie main et des index en diamants. Le chiffre 12 est redessiné, tout en féminité. La version en acier et diamants gagne en raffinement, et décline les mêmes caractéristiques sur le petit modèle : cadran en nacre, lunette sertie main, index bâtons sertis et nouveau 12.

Bracelet manchette en or jaune et diamants de la collection Escapade de Chaumet © presse

Yellow gold bracelet with brilliant-cut diamonds from the new Escapade de Chaumet collection.

Bague large en or jaune et diamants de la collection Escapade de Chaumet © presse

 Chaumet, montres féminine Liens © presse

PARIS - The great French jewelry house Chaumet continues its series of notable and spectacular exhibitions. In early autumn 2015, Chaumet offered the public the exhibition "bucolic promenade". Jewelry exhibition took place on the second floor of the historic flagship store of Chaumet - Paris, Place Vendome, 12. "Sentimental Education" - this is the second in a series of ephemeral series of representations of the legendary brand.

Recall that the second floor of Chaumet boutique, in essence, and without any exposure is finished (even if tiny) Museum of Historical Treasures. In addition, here is the guardian of the house office heritage, experienced curator Beatrice de Plenval working Chaumet in 1968 (note that Madame de Plenval repeatedly performed even designer jewelry brand). Second, "the museum" Chaumet floor is not only ready-made jewelry designs, but also a lot of historical sketches, including legendary figures tiaras and crowns, in the manufacture of which the French company that is almost without equal.

"An Education" - an exhibition dedicated to the romantic, sentimental jewelry. The Chaumet not the first time, however, carry out a "sentimental" session. In 2007, the house has been organized the exhibition "love" amorous jewelery, and, in the exhibition were then included not only things actual jewelry brand itself, but also real antique jewelry, dating from the times of the Renaissance yet. Also specially for the exhibition in 2007 at Chaumet launched a small, but very thick historical album glossary, which dealt with the evolution of jewelry items devoted to Cupid. So, for example, from the album can be found that a piece of jewelry in the form of snakes or lizards, reptiles, biting its tail, stands for "infinite, eternal love." Jewelry item represents "a complete understanding of love, happy feeling" in the form of crossed arms. But the heart pierced by an arrow, tells the story of unrequited love, tragic, lonely, unrequited passion. In short, the amorous decoration - it is not just a beautiful and mysterious objects, but a separate complex encyclopaedic science and learn about it is offered now, or rather the same - February 6, when starting the Paris exposition (exhibition will run until the beginning of July).

Traditionally Chaumet house offers a look at already made jewelry: diamond, with rubies, golden brooch in the form of wide open wings; totally brilliant, flexible, plastic, delicate bracelet "Prank"; many brooches and hairpins in the form of diamond hearts with golden arrows ( "Morning Gifts") and, of course, large and small decorations for the head and hairstyle (tiaras, diadems, Bando, Egret, pins). Archives of Chaumet, which manages the already mentioned contact Beatriz de Plenval also regularly "go out", and "An Education" in this case is no exception. This color drawings and sketches of the beginning of XIX century, fundamental for Chaumet era, the time of formation of the romantic style, the time when the house was incredibly close to the royal family of Napoleon Bonaparte (the founder of the brand Marie Etienne Nito in 1804 performed the part of the crown jewels for Napoleon, he later and his son were the jewelers of the emperor and his two wives - Josephine de Beauharnais and nee Maria Luisa Austrian princess). This image period, belle epoque, very secular, flirty and simultaneously progressive (the rich technical, including jewelry invention) era. Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, the basic, key areas of decorative and applied directions of the first half of the XX century, will also be presented ready, filled with jewels and sketches.

Jewelled Arts of Chaumet, which, on the one hand, characterized by a noble statehood, and on the other - completely private sentimentality and affection, always has been claimed in love, not only French, but Russian too. Thus, in the Chaumet in the early 1850s performed colored brooch in the form of Harlequin: it was a gift of the French Princess Mathilde of her Russian husband, Prince Anatol Demidov. Wedding niece of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II Irina Romanova and heir of one of the most important aristocratic families of the Russian Empire, Prince Felix Yusupov (1914), too, was not without Chaumet jewelry. This refers to himself Felix Yusupov in his famous memoirs: "Jewellers Chaumet perfectly faceted diamonds Irene." In short, the newly formed precious Odyssey "Sentimental Education" of Chaumet, of course, the ephemeral, temporary exhibition, but she tells about the eternal and the overriding definition - namely, love.

Chaumet presents Une Éducation Sentimentale